PSY100 week 1

A major issue that has emerged from debates over the use of animals in psychological research centers on

What safeguards should protect the well-being of animals used in research.

Researchers use experiments rather than other research methods in order to isolate

causes and effects

Professor Crisman believes that most women prefer tall and physically strong partners because this preference promoted the survival of our ancestors' genes. This viewpoint best illustrates the ________ perspective.

evolutionary

The hindsight bias refers to people's tendency to

exaggerate their ability to have foreseen the outcome of past events

Clinical psychologists specialize in

providing therapy to troubled people

Psychological differences between the genders are

far outweighed by gender similarities

Humanistic psychologists focused attention on the importance of people's

potential for healthy growth

In a study of the effects of drinking alcohol, some participants drank a nonalcoholic beverage that actually smelled and tasted like alcohol. This nonalcoholic drink was a

placebo

Discovering and promoting human strengths and virtues that help individuals and communities to thrive is the major focus of

positive psychology

Which of the following correlation coefficients expresses the weakest degree of relationship between two variables?

-0.12

In a psychological experiment, the factor that may be influenced by the manipulated experimental treatment is called the ________ variable.

dependent

Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow promoted a historically significant approach known as

humanistic psychology

A researcher would be most likely to discover a positive correlation between

intelligence and academic success

Efforts to discover whether the intelligence of children is more heavily influenced by their biology or by their home environments are most directly relevant to the debate regarding

nature versus nurture

Which perspective would help us to understand the impact of strokes and brain diseases on memory?

neuroscience

Dr. Lipka focuses on ways to improve employee job satisfaction and productivity. Dr. Lipka is most likely a(n) ________ psychologist.

social

Dr. Mills conducts research on why individuals conform to the behaviors and opinions of others. Which specialty area does his research best represent?

social psychology

If psychologists discovered that more intelligent parents have smarter children than less intelligent parents, this would demonstrate that

the intelligence of parents and children is positively correlated

Illusory correlation refers to

the phenomenon of perceiving a relationship between variables (typically people, events, or behaviors) even when no such relationship exists.

A negative correlation between degree of wealth and likelihood of suffering from a psychological disorder would indicate that

the poor are more likely to have a psychological disorder than the wealthy